dmi_scan: add comments on dmi_present() and the loop in dmi_scan_machine()
My previous refactoring in commit 79bae42d51
("dmi_scan: refactor
dmi_scan_machine(), {smbios,dmi}_present()") resulted in slightly tricky
code (though I think it's more elegant). Explain what it's doing.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -419,6 +419,13 @@ static void __init dmi_format_ids(char *buf, size_t len)
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dmi_get_system_info(DMI_BIOS_DATE));
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}
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/*
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* Check for DMI/SMBIOS headers in the system firmware image. Any
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* SMBIOS header must start 16 bytes before the DMI header, so take a
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* 32 byte buffer and check for DMI at offset 16 and SMBIOS at offset
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* 0. If the DMI header is present, set dmi_ver accordingly (SMBIOS
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* takes precedence) and return 0. Otherwise return 1.
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*/
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static int __init dmi_present(const u8 *buf)
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{
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int smbios_ver;
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@ -506,6 +513,13 @@ void __init dmi_scan_machine(void)
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if (p == NULL)
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goto error;
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/*
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* Iterate over all possible DMI header addresses q.
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* Maintain the 32 bytes around q in buf. On the
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* first iteration, substitute zero for the
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* out-of-range bytes so there is no chance of falsely
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* detecting an SMBIOS header.
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*/
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memset(buf, 0, 16);
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for (q = p; q < p + 0x10000; q += 16) {
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memcpy_fromio(buf + 16, q, 16);
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